A cheating husband faked his own kidnapping so he could be with another woman.

33-year-old Warren Green from west London was sentenced to 120 hours of community work by Edinburgh Sheriff Court on November 02 after he had admitted falsely representing to police officers that he had been abducted and assaulted.

Green had sneaked off to see a third lover after lying to his mistress Chelsea Linn in Edinburgh who he had already planned to see without his wife knowing.

A worried Chelsea called the police after Green got a friend to call her and tell her he had been kidnapped.

He claimed he had been bundled into a car by two men and then punched and kicked as he lay chained to a radiator in an Edinburgh city centre flat.

When Green arrived at her home in Oxgangs, Edinburgh, the following day, officers were waiting for him.

The dad of two carried on insisting he had been kidnapped when the officers questioned him.

But his story soon began to unravel and he eventually admitted he had made the story up so he could “sneak off to see another girl”.

At an earlier hearing, he had admitted falsely representing to police officers that he had been abducted, assaulted and held to ransom in Edinburgh on April 5 and 6 2014.

A not guilty plea to conspiring to extort money from Ms Linn by claiming he had been abducted and held to ransom was accepted by the Crown.

Gerard Drugan, prosecuting, told the court Green had continued to maintain he had been kidnapped during the interview at Chelsea’s home.

Drugan said: “Officers asked him what had happened and he said he had been approached by two white males and taken away in a VW Passat.

“He had a hood placed over his head and driven away.

"He was taken to a third-floor flat and taken into the bedroom.

“He was then chained to a radiator by the left ankle and then kicked and punched.”

But police realised there were flaws in Green’s story when they forensically checked his clothing and phone records.

The two so-called abductors were traced to a house in Corstorphine but told officers they had no knowledge of any abduction.

Further investigations led police to view CCTV footage from a city centre bookmaker’s.

The three men were seen greeting each other with a fist bump and laughing together when they met before the kidnap claim.

Green's solicitor David Patterson told the court that his client had “instantly regretted” making up the story of the kidnapping and the whole thing “started off as a joke”.

Patterson added: “The incident started off as a joke but then he couldn’t make his way out of it.

“His error was when the police arrested him he made those comments.”

Green’s two accomplices were subsequently found to be living in the United Kingdom illegally and both have since been deported.

Sheriff Crowe ordered that Green's 120 hours of unpaid community work be carried back to Brent Council as well as a 12 month supervision.